Transgender bathroom concerns were voiced loudly at a Fairfax County Public Schools Board meeting after “gender identity” was added to the district’s non-discrimination policy. A massive amount of opposition to the policy was reportedly expressed by the community to the Virginia school board, but the transgender policy was approved as police were called for crowd control.

Fairfax County Public Schools parents and community members argued that the gender identity policy would lead to transgender bathrooms and permit boys to use the girls bathrooms and locker rooms — and vice versa. Parents of Virginia students also noted their concerns about the possible hiring of transgender teachers within the district.

The United States Department of Education issued a mandate from its Office of Civil Rights about gender identity policy requirements, according to the Fairfax County school board. The mandate also reportedly threatened to yank federal funding if such a policy was not approved.The district said they were mandated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to add “gender identity” to the policy or else risk losing federal funding....

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[The] federal government is requiring the district to hire a consultant to “advise them on how school divisions should handle individual cases of transgender students.”...

Last month, the chairman of the Fairfax County School Board made an impassioned plea to the Board of Supervisors to provide $14 million more to balance next year’s school budget. Two days later, she and four colleagues — a minority of the board, given three abstentions — voted themselves a 60 percent pay raise. Some tried to double their pay but lacked the votes.

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This transgender thing is unacceptable to me. Our Progressive government is going off the deep end for the extreme minorities. It is now the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many...but at whose cost?

Our nation has become like a poor dog with an ever-increasing number of TAILS each of which strives with all its might and main to wag the poor animal in a confounding variety of conflicting directions.

Is it any wonder the poor dog is foaming at the mouth now and giving every sign he will soon have to be put down, because of incurable distemper?

Doesn't it stand to reason that if a transgendered person is successful in making the sought after change, NO ONE would be aware that he or she does NOT belong where he or she has chosen to go? There would be no CAUSE for raised eyebrows, or shock and outrage.

However, if you have a PENIS, you belong in the BOYS room no matter how you "feel" about yourself.

The converse is equally true. If you have BREASTS and a VAGINA, you belong with the GIRLS.

PERIOD!

Now in the very rare instances when you have the sex organs of BOTH SEXES in ONE body, God help you.

Just look around @ America today. Distasteful tattooing, rampant obesity, heshe/shehes, etc. When I was a kid we had to pay a quarter to get into the side-show to see all of that.. Now it's absolutely free. That's real progress, isn't it!

Jon, what gets me is so many way below the poverty line have expensive tats and women have expensive porcelain nails.....always kind of stops me in my tracks.I once sub'd at the high school and had to show some film on food and how some live so far from stores and some Black families (it concentrated on minorities) have $3 a day for food....very sad story....and I ALMOST said "Notice that the mother who spends $3 a day on food for her family spends at least $30 a week on her porcelain nails" but I couldn't do that to the Black kids in that class I love so much. I wondered if they noticed; they're bright kids.

Maybe you should join Silverfiddle in his quest to appease the Muzzie community with halal snacks and wudus. I'm sure he wouldn't object to installing a few token condom machines for the glory holes in the stall areas.

After all, we're NOTHING if not serious about accommodating differences. :)

Well, I DID hear of a school story about 'freaking out for no good reason', but it wasn't THIS one. Brown University had a 'debate' forum on the so-called rape culture on campuses -- with 2 women speakers. And there was a FREAK OUT with a 'safe room' with blankets and comfort items, videos of puppies playing. They figured students so could not tolerate to hear a [main stream, common sense factual] view that differed from the party line they had to be prepared to cuddle or coddle them. Now THAT is freaking out for no good reason.

Looking at the destruction of reasonable and structurally natural cultural norms that identify men as men and women as women in order to pander to the confusion of a few aberrant individuals - now THAT'S a reason to raise one's voice to be heard.

Duck,Right now, we don't know what is irrelevant and what is relevant.

Suppose that it were to come to light that a heterosexual train engineer had broke up with his significant other a few hours before a train wreck with circumstances similar to those known so far about the recent train wreck in Philadelphia. Would not such an emotional upheaval be under consideration as a contributing cause of the wreck? If similar information comes along about Bostian, would that information be discounted? Just askin'.

FT,The media make much of the torment suffered by gays and transgender people.

Is it out of the realm of possibility that such a tormented individual might commit mass murder via train wreck? No, it isn't out of the realm of possibility, IMO. I have my doubts that Bostian was so depressed that he did such a thing, but I know others who think that he might have done so -- and I'm not referring only to Ed's comment above.

Remember that trouble airline pilot who flew a jetliner into the Alps a few months ago?

Anyway, we don't have all the information about Bostian yet. Let's see what comes down the pike.

FT. Except for felon, you listed races. I'm talking emotional disorder.Many homosexuals are alcoholic for a reason.They are and act disturbed by their proclivities. That's fact. Many engage in dangerous behavior, and I won't describe it.I'd bet that this is the last time he took that curve at speed.

There may be more to the train wreck we have been discussing in this thread:

From the New York Times...

Amtrak Train Possibly Hit Before Wreck

PHILADELPHIA — The Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring more than 200, may have been struck by an object before it careened off the tracks, an assistant conductor on the train told investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board.At a news conference on Friday, Robert L. Sumwalt, the safety board official who is leading the investigation, said an assistant conductor had reported that she believed she heard a radio transmission in which an engineer on a regional line said his train had been struck by a projectile and the engineer on the Amtrak train replied that his had been struck, too.Mr. Sumwalt said that investigators had found a fist-size circular area of impact on the left side of the Amtrak train’s windshield and that they had asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze it. He said that the F.B.I. had been called in because it has the forensics expertise needed for the investigation, but that it had not yet begun its analysis. ...

I read an article earlier this week, and I think it said something in the range of a tenth of a percent. It's confusing, because gender dysphoria gets conflated with homosexuality and all the other colors of the rainbow in the popular press.

Imagine how few must be accomodated at the expense of those who'd rather not have their children exposed to something they don't really have to be?I believe Facebook now lists 76 options on their forms for GENDER.

AOW, it shows a real sign of sickness in our country, that's for sure. I mean, when MALE or FEMALE doesn't work anymore and there are 76 ways to describe how that doesn't work; wow.My heart's with those who tell us what uncomfortable lives they live, etc., but when that teensy percentage starts warranting forms and signs to accomodate their gender, that's nuts.

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